Cooking (Flowers) -- Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fruit) -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800
Boyle _Oatmeale,_, of the smallest you can get, and red _Sage_ together,
in running or Conduict water, till it be thick enough to make
a Plaister and then put into it a fit proportion of _Honey_, and let it
boyle a little together, take it off the fire, and while it is yet boyling
hot, put thereto so much of the best _Venice Terpentine_ as will
make it thick enough to spread, then spreading it on some soft
leather, or a good thick linnen cloath, apply it to the brest, and
it will first break the soare; and after that being continued, will
also heale it up.
_A Medicine that hath recovered some from
the Dropsie whome the Physitian
hath given over_.
Take green _Broome_ and burne it in some clean place, that you
may save the ashes of it, take some ten or twelve spoonfulls of the
same Ashes, and boyle them in a pint of _White_ wine till the vertue
of it be in the wine, then coole it, and drayne the wine from the
dreggs, and make three draughts of the Wine, and drink one fasting
in the morning, another at three in the afternoone, another
late at night neer going to bed. Continue this, and by Gods grace
it will cure you.
_An especiall Medicine for all manner of Poyson_.
Take _Hemp seed_, dry it very well, and get off the husks, and
beat the _Hemp seed_ into fine powder, take _Mintes_ also, dry them,
and make them into powder, boyle a spoonfull of either of these
in halfe a pint of _Goats_ milk, a pretty while, then put the milk into
a cup to coole, and put into it a spoonfull of _Treacle_, and stir
them together till it be coole enough, then drink it in the morning
fasting, and eat nothing till noon, or at least two hours; doe
the like at night, and use it so three dayes, and it will kill and overcome
any poyson.
_Doctor_ Lewin's _Unguentum Rosatum, good
for the heat in the Back._
Take a certain quantity of _Barrowes_ grease; Oyle of sweet _Almonds_,
and _Rose-water_, either red or damask, of each a like quantity,
but of neither so much as of the _Hoggs_ grease, beat them together
to an Oyntment, put it in some gally pot, and when you would use it,
heat it, and therewith annoynt the Back and Reins.
* * * * *
_Of Beanes._
_To defend Humours._
Take _Beanes_, the rinde or the upper skin being pul'd off, bruise
them, and mingle them with the white of an Egg, and make
it stick to the temples, it keepeth back humours flowing to the
Eyes.
_To dissolve the Stone; which is one of the Physitians
greatest secrets._
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